The Psychology Foundation of Australia

Incorporated (New South Wales)


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The Psychology Foundation aims to aims to promote public awareness of scientific psychology, its relevance and usefulness in many areas of human performance and in solving human problems. Consistent with that aim it has produced the following items:

Position Papers

Psychology: The science of mind, brain, and behaviour, FASTS Occasional Paper, No. 6., Canberra, 2007

(The is paper is being revised to include the full list of member schools until that correction is made please see the full list on this link)

Media Releases

The state of science. Australian R & Review (June 2006)

Contact between ethnic groups likely to increase not reduce tension (5 June 2006).

New study to examine impact of lower levels of lead exposure on brain development (23 August 2006).

The value of scepticism in judging truth (7 August 2007).

 

The links below point to organizations which promote the value of scientifically-obtained psychological knowledge to the community and the need for that research.

 

The Australian Psychological Society

The Association for Psychological Science

The American Psychological Association

The British Psychological Society.

 

A much more extensive international list of Psychology related  links is maintained by the American Association for Psychological Science and can be viewed here

 

Some current Psychological research is conducted over the internet. Links to that research can be viewed here